africa rising west africa: phase 2 proposal
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Africa RISING West AfricaPhase 2 Proposal
Asamoah Larbi (IITA)Africa RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting
1-2 February, 2017Accra, Ghana
Project purposeTo provide pathways out of hunger and poverty for smallholder families through sustainably intensified farming systems that sufficiently improve food, nutrition, and income security, particularly for women and children, and conserve or enhance the natural resource base
Vision of success - targets
Phase 1 Phase 2Target – direct beneficiaries engaged in technology development and numbering thousands
Direct beneficiaries engaged via development partners and numbering hundreds of thousands of individuals
Phase 1 Phase 2
In Ghana:25 communities in the northern (10), Upper West (10) and Upper East (5) regions
Extending to 5 more communities in the Upper East and reducing to 5 communities in the Upper West
Project sites – scale of operation
Theme Phase 1 Phase 21 Socio-economic assessment of innovation Policies and markets, gender (Output 3)
Delivery, adoption and learning (Output 42 Intensification of crop production Enhanced productivity and resilience of
crop-livestock systems (Output 1)3 Intensification of livestock production4 Soil, water and land management5 Nutrition, food safety, post-harvest
mycotoxin management Improved household nutrition, food and food safety, value addition (Output 2)
Research focus
Research approach
Phase 1 Phase 2Generic research on technology identification, testing and validation
▪Generic and research to backstop scaling initiatives with development partners. ▪More social science analysis▪Application of typologies for targeting
Partnerships
Phase 1 Phase 2Primarily with disciplinary experts in public sector and farmers
Expanding to include more private-sector actors and moving towards stronger development partnerships
Research-for-development platforms
Phase 1 Phase 2Implemented at community and district levels
Multi-stakeholder interest group for specific innovation at the community and district levels
Monitoring and evaluation
Phase 1 Phase 2▪Ad hoc monitoring via field visits▪Mostly opportunistic.
▪Greater quantitative emphasis▪Beneficiary tracking system to capture technology dissemination▪Implement the sustainable indicator framework
Dissemination and scaling
Phase 1 Phase 2Ad hoc dissemination and scaling arising from technology generation and demonstration activities
Systematic horizontal and vertical scaling of Phase technologies and practices with development partners.
U of Ghana
U for Development Studies
Kwame Nkrumah U S&T
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
MScPhD
Students funded
Capacity building
Phase 1 Phase 2▪No strategy▪Focused more on students, e.g. Ghana▪Limited focus on gender
▪Develop capacity building strategy▪More attention to gender- women, youth▪Facilitate graduate training in Mali
What is new in phase 2•Targets – 90,000 households•Research focus•Research approach•Partnership•Research for development platforms•Develop, nutrition and livestock research strategies•Monitoring and evaluation•Scaling and delivery•Training and capacity building •Integration of the crop-livestock-soil activities.•Link the livestock, crop and nutrition activities•Small-scale mechanization (labor-saving)•Strengthen post-harvest and value addition•Focus on climate-smart crop-livestock systems
Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
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